davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 4 hours agoReseting the EU relationship, one very slow step at a timeMy Union branch has passed a motion for GMB Congress calling for the Labour Government to rejoin the single market and…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 10 days agoBye Bye Morgan, and next?So McSweeney is permitted to resign ‘from government’ and in his apology seeks to constrain his downfall to his…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 21 days agoUntimely Atlanticism, a note on the UK-US Tech Prosperity DealI wrote a response to the US/UK Technology deal which was eventually published in the Chartist Magazine . They…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 2 months agoOn UK public debt, yields and affordabilityThe government and Labour MPs seem fascinated by bond yields. They present the fact that UK yields are high is seen as…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 2 months agoThe single marketThe number of senior labour movement figures have argued over the Christmas break that the UK should seek to rejoin…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 2 months agoOn the autumn statement 2026A quick note on the budget, remembering I wasn’t as critical of last year’s as some , at least not on…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 3 months agoLabour’s macroeconomics (2023)This was written two years ago in the autumn, following Labour's last conference in opposition. I think it's aged…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 3 months agoInnovation happens elsewhere!“The innovators dilemma” is a book by Clayton Christensen, first published in 1997. In it, he explores the paradox…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 5 months agoData-driven campaigning: how and why do political parties do it?“Other people have good ideas” I attended a lecture in Jan 24; The lecture was videoed and the video has been…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 5 months agoOnce upon a time in HEOn my way home from labour conference 23, I visited the People’s History Museum. It was a bit of a vanity trip as I…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 7 months agoRalph Miliband on Labour’s last year in oppositionBut that was in 1963, sixty years ago. Due to some personal reappraisals of my politics, I have been looking at the…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • last yearIntergenerational EquityOriginally published at on June 30, 2023. by Nikola Knezevic, from Unsplash In this article , in the FT…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • last yearAt GMB Congress, immigration, racism and europeAt the GMB Congress, my Region, London, organised a fringe meeting on the “ The rise of the far right and worker’s…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • last yearStarmer’s speech on refugeesA little essay on Natalie Elphick’s defection to Labour and Starmer’s speech in Dover on refugee policy. Dover, by…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • last yearReading Labour’s tea leavesI wrote earlier about the possibility of a youth mobility proposal from the EU; I’d say it’s now dead and that may…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 2 years agoSlogans aren’t bulletsBefore the election was called, Keir Starmer visited BEA systems at Barrow in Furness, the dockyard that builds and…davelevy (51)in #programming • 2 years agoLearning bash, and other languagesI made the mistake of claiming to be a bit of a whizz with bash. Someone wrote to me and asked me how I did that. The…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 2 years agoNo jokes Mr Mandelson!This article in the guardian, entitled, "‘You’ve got to be joking’: Mandelson dismisses prospect of UK rejoining…davelevy (51)in #blogging • 2 years agoAre blogs still useful?In August 2009, I wrote an article questioning if blogs were losing their influence. In conversations over the…davelevy (51)in #ukpolitics • 2 years agoPR in WalesI wrote, nearly two years ago, welcoming the change on the composition and size of the Welsh Senedd, or on…
